WYP
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Seven games will support the feature at launch!
Read more about the Xbox One's planned keyboard/mouse support.
Read more about the Xbox One's planned keyboard/mouse support.
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The Xbox One will gain Keyboard/Mouse Support Tomorrow
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AlienALX
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eventually replace my gaming PC with an xbone ?
IF the next gen offers support this across the board I will definitely look at this option, Driving, fighting, flying and a bit of gta on controller and all others on M/K ill be happy with
haha if you'd ever tried to browse the web on the Xbone you wouldn't even consider it
It's a terrible experience. Hardly anything works and you just end up frustrated.
Now if some one would release a decent browser? yeah, might almost be worth considering.
Darkdayzzz
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haha if you'd ever tried to browse the web on the Xbone you wouldn't even consider it
It's a terrible experience. Hardly anything works and you just end up frustrated.
Now if some one would release a decent browser? yeah, might almost be worth considering.
^ This. It doesn't help that it is MS Edge either, but for the most part it is just laggy and slow. I'll use my Galaxy S8 phone to browse for what I want before I'd ever consider using the Edge browser on the console.
I found doing most general tasks on the XoneX to be pretty snappy including basic browsing and multimedia and the like, a lot smoother than a traditional model although obviously you still hit a wall whenever you need a plug-in or something, and its multitasking ability was kinda impressive (Compared to the semi-freezing you got when switching apps on earlier 8th gen consoles). It's been a while since I used either (And I'm sure both have improved since I last used) but I felt PUBG on XoneX would have been a far less annoying game with M+K support (Since having everyone have to use a gamepad with only raw input(No auto-aim or smoothing in any way) at like 24 fps made all medium range gun fights pretty drawn out and low risk while close range ones were just flat out confusing)
demonking
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I think I could offset the £600+ cost on a GPU to go on a midrange laptop for the everything else. though that does seem to be a false economy :huh:
just too many factors to this, mostly my steam library but the rising cost of components is the main reason i'd consider it. My PC is very quickly getting to the point where I will have no choice but to upgrade it and the cost of the equivalent spec on new parts has gone up so much since then I really don't know if I can justify it.
A i7, high end mobo and the fastest ram possible cost me just shy of £400 when I built mine. I doubt id get a current gen high end mobo and ram for that sort of price now, plus CPU and cooler...
just too many factors to this, mostly my steam library but the rising cost of components is the main reason i'd consider it. My PC is very quickly getting to the point where I will have no choice but to upgrade it and the cost of the equivalent spec on new parts has gone up so much since then I really don't know if I can justify it.
A i7, high end mobo and the fastest ram possible cost me just shy of £400 when I built mine. I doubt id get a current gen high end mobo and ram for that sort of price now, plus CPU and cooler...
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
People who use that are definitely going to have an advantage
If they add this to games like COD and Destiny, then I will seriously be thinking about making the switch on a permanent basis.
I am sick of the state of games on the pc these day's, and the amount of people who are using cheats is just unreal.
It's why I have stopped playing PUBG on the PC, because in every game there is someone cheating, whether it's an Aimbot/wallhack or a macro for recoil.
I know cheating exist's on the consoles, but it's no where near as bad as it is on the pc.
The other benefit is that, I have alot of friends on the Xbox so that would also be a benefit as long as we can play together rather than being split up, because I use a keyboard and mouse for the pve games, pvp I can understand but pve shouldn't be split.
I am sick of the state of games on the pc these day's, and the amount of people who are using cheats is just unreal.
It's why I have stopped playing PUBG on the PC, because in every game there is someone cheating, whether it's an Aimbot/wallhack or a macro for recoil.
I know cheating exist's on the consoles, but it's no where near as bad as it is on the pc.
The other benefit is that, I have alot of friends on the Xbox so that would also be a benefit as long as we can play together rather than being split up, because I use a keyboard and mouse for the pve games, pvp I can understand but pve shouldn't be split.
demonking
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Why should it be split?
I choose to use a controller for gta5 on pc, I am at a disadvantage I know that but its my choice to do that because I prefer that game on a controller. It's not like cross play currently where console users are forced into a disadvantage and don't have that option after this.
Afaik in multiplayer they do plan to have options for split matchmaking similar to how I believe they already do for Gears and Destiny(?) crossplay.
I don't think GTAV is a fair point of comparison because it's hard to say M+K is an all round better scheme in anything with vehicles and heavy auto-aim and GTA is famously controller-dependant, it's only really twitchy competitive online shooters it has a measurable impact I think. In a game like PUBG unless they've improved the controls a lot gamepad users would be no match for anyone with an M+K in mixed servers imo, it's not just the aiming accuracy or speed of target acquisition that's different, the whole range of engagement possible is flipped.
I don't think GTAV is a fair point of comparison because it's hard to say M+K is an all round better scheme in anything with vehicles and heavy auto-aim and GTA is famously controller-dependant, it's only really twitchy competitive online shooters it has a measurable impact I think. In a game like PUBG unless they've improved the controls a lot gamepad users would be no match for anyone with an M+K in mixed servers imo, it's not just the aiming accuracy or speed of target acquisition that's different, the whole range of engagement possible is flipped.
AlienALX
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I agree, it's a fantastic media unit. Switching between the apps (that work*) is seamless and easy, and it's generally very peppy and smooth. Like when I got stuck in FO4 for 4 hours running around the same building (in circles) I just switched to YT, watched a video and then jumped straight back into my game.
However. *Like I said before Edge on it is absolutely terrible and VLC streaming on it is worse than using my Amazon Fire HD stick. Most of the video you stream from a NAS for example will be missing audio due to codec licenses and so on. The only issue I have with my Amazon stick is that you need to pause a video, then start it again to get the sound in sync with the video (otherwise it will be off). However, the Amazon stick sees the NAS *every single time* whereas the Xbox doesn't. Sometimes I have to reboot a few times, or reboot the NAS (a real PITA).
So yeah, app wise? not very good at all. If they ever do get all of that sorted though? then yes, I am pretty sure it would make a good surrogate PC. Facebook works "OK" but only OK (better on my Android phone tbh) and so on. They just don't have the app support and apps that Android or IOS does. Which is a shame, as I reckon if you chucked an SSD in there you would have no need for a PC at all.
It will probably be split because, there is a clear advantage at least from my experience.
The problem will come from people who don't want to use a keyboard and mouse and don't want to play against people using them.
Will also be interesting to see if they lock out all but "Partner" products, or if the dev's do like unfortunately Frontier do with Elite on the PS4.
